The study showed that results vary widely between verticals, with some industries averaging a 28 percent increase in asset utilization by improving data effectiveness.

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Researchers from the MIT Poverty Action Lab showed that, in one state, reforms to increase training marginally improved the police effectiveness and public image.

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Great sales executives understand that to increase the productivity of their sales people they need to continually invest in both product and sales effectiveness training.

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Home Office minister John Denham, speaking in the Commons recently, said the reforms "constitute a very strong package of measures to increase the effectiveness and scope of Asbos and to ensure that they have maximum impact for maximum benefit to communities".

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They deliberately increase short-term costs, sacrificing short-term efficiency, in order to have greater long-term efficiency and effectiveness.

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Investing in whatever we need, whether it is efficiency experts, better computer monitoring programs or devising programs to increase the effectiveness of existing inspection methods, we need to do it.

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